The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-11-05

gas.
There is no organized fire COM
pany At Frankfort.
"A new capsule factory Is being
put up at Kalamazoo.
"A 100000 school-house win be
erected at Gaines this fall.
The Methodist Church at Albion
win build new ediiicr soon.
Stanton school teachers have
formed q Chautauqua reading circle.
-Gnnd Rapids policemen have
donnn their winter wearing apparel
The capital stock Of the new
State bank &C Ishpeming, $4,000, has
been subscribed.
Among the inmates Of the St. Joe
County Poor House Is woman over
ninety-seven years old.
An interstate fair Is being talked
up by Berrien county and two adj
joining Indiana districts.
--StLouis has contracted for twenty
| five electric lights at a cost of $500
per annum for i've years.
The lumber showers at Muskegon
work for 80 cents an hour. On the
| Saginaw river they get 60 cents. .
Martin Bohosky was run over by
the cars at Flint, one morning
last week and died in a few hours.
- Isaac Thompson, a farmer living
| two miles east OF Romeo. was in the
| village on Tuesday for the first time In
| fifteen years.
The Nashville Congregational
Church Choir is accompanied by an
orchestra consisting of first and second
violins, cornet and organ.
John Barber, of Edwardsburg, has
been added by Governor Luce to the
State delegation TO the National
Farmers Congress at Chicago.
WIN. Spicer, convicted in the Kali
amazoo Circuit Court of horse steal
ing, has been sentenced 10 the Detroit
House Of Correction for nine months.
Over 1000 signatures 70 the local
option petition have been sent to the
committee at Hastings. They are
from less than one-third of the school
i 1ietttS~o Va AfohtJ N0tA&Js
The people of Lansing have been
notified that they must raise bonus
of $50,0O0 TO keep the wagon works
from being removed 10 Grand Rapids.
The bonus will probably be raised.
Big Rapids is again threatened
with the Salvation Army, but II is
doubtful IL the latter can secure a
suitable hall, owners of vacant build
ing refusing 10 rent them TO the army.
"A lady's shoe. made 10 order, is
on exhibition in the window of st.
Louis shoe dealer The shoe measures
sixteen and one-half by eight inches.
Reports to the State Board OF
Health show the presence OF diph-
iberia at thirty places in Michigan, of
scarlet fever at fourteen, typhoid fever
at twenty, measles at six and small
pox at Detroit.
Charles 4. Lewis, of Eaton Rap
ids, aged flfty-six, and Mrs. Anna
Furman, of Lansing, aged fifty-four,
were married Thursday. She is his
fourth timorous bride, and he Is her
second husband.
The Jackson police force weighs
6,S82 pounds, Is GAO years old, and "a
feet In height. Its feet are 800 inches
In length, 1t wears size ll6 hat, and
has 528 buttons upon its clothing.
These facts are evolved from multiply
ing each officers possessions by 10.
The new Toledo, Ann Arbor &
Northern shops at Owosso are to COM
prise round house with stalls for
thirty-tive engines, a machine shop
covering S0x200 feet, and other large
buildings for blacksmith shops, wood
shops, foundry, paint shop, store sheds,
general offices, etc.
The arrest of Dan Shoupe, Mrs.
Shower, Joe Gregory, and Milo Lyman
on charge of being part of gang OF
thieves who have been terrorizinp
Homer for over a year caused SEN
sation. The work OF the gang has
been systematic, thorough, and mys-
terious, and has until recently dehed
all detection.
--Saugatuck fisherman have tried
deep water fishing this year, and have
found IL very renumerative. BY set.
ting their nets In forty fathoms OF
water, distance OF about twelve
miles from the shore, they catch guam
titles OF "long jaws" a fish that closely
resembles the white fish and brings Q
good price In Chicago.
Judge Grant, Of Marquette, Il
holding court In the Washtenaw cir